MANAGEMENT {LEARNING PROCESS}
Why SBLs need to understand the learning process in order to develop it
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t always concerns me when I meet an SBM/SBL/whatever we’re called this week (WWCTW) who doesn’t want to engage with children. I understand that children in general – and teenagers, in particular – can be a peculiar breed; sullen and uncommunicative, still dragging the backs
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December 2021
of their hands on the floor as they walk and touching soap with the kind of fragility that others would use when handling arsenic - all of which can make them resemble creatures from Star Wars; their faces hidden at the bottom of a dark hood with only their bright eyes visible to the outside world. It can be a scary façade.
STEPHEN PEACH, assistant headteacher and business manager, Dacorum Education Support Centre, explores the reasons why SBLs need to observe the workings of the learning process closer I find that making the effort to get to know children is always worthwhile - you get to know their individuality and uniquenesses - but, more importantly, you learn what their needs are and can prioritise these accurately. If you don’t take the time to work out what those needs are, how is the SBM/SBL/WWCTW going to meet them?
